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語源 1

From Latin tetricus (“stern, severe, gloomy”).

形容詞

tetric (comparative more tetric, superlative most tetric)

1. (obsolete) Morose, bitter.

   Synonym: tetrical

   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
     , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.284:

     They are commonly sad and tetric by nature, as Ahab's spirit was because he could not get Naboth's vineyard […]

   • a. 1716, Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 1.26:

     However, the old tetrick Philosophers look'd always with Indignation upon such a Face of Things […] .

語源 2

From tetr- +‎ -ic.

形容詞

tetric (comparative more tetric, superlative most tetric)

1. (chemistry) Denoting a kind of acid.

派生語

• tetric acid